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- OPERATION POLITICALLY HOMELESS
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- "Are you really a liberal? A closet conservative? A libertarian?
- Despite its name, the World's Smallest Political Quiz is savvy and
- willing to tell you the truth." -- Yahoo Internet Life
-
- The World's Smallest Political Quiz is also on the World Wide Web.
- http://www.self-gov.org/quiz.html
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- Current Results
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- Total number of quiz takers (782,907):
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- Libertarian 37.6%
- Left-liberal 16.2%
- Centrist 29.7%
- Right-Conservative 8.4%
- Authoritarian 8.1%
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- Also check our site for the daily presidential poll. Results can be
- found at:
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- http://www.self-gov.org/presres.shtml
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- WORLD'S SMALLEST POLITICAL QUIZ
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- Take the World's Smallest Political Quiz to find your political
- identity. Choose Y when you agree with a statement, M for Maybe,
- Sometimes or Need-More-Information, or choose N for No.
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- ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON PERSONAL ISSUES?
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- 20 10 0
- Y __ M __ N __ Military service should be voluntary. (No draft)
- Y __ M __ N __ Government should not control radio, TV, the press or
- the Internet.
- Y __ M __ N __ Repeal regulations on sex for consenting adults.
- Y __ M __ N __ Drug laws do more harm than good. Repeal them.
- Y __ M __ N __ Let peaceful people cross borders freely.
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- ____ My PERSONAL self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N.
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- ARE YOU A SELF-GOVERNOR ON ECONOMIC ISSUES?
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- 20 10 0
- Y __ M __ N __ Businesses and farms should operate without govt. subsidies.
- Y __ M __ N __ People are better off with free trade than with tariffs.
- Y __ M __ N __ Minimum wage laws cause unemployment. Repeal them.
- Y __ M __ N __ End taxes. Pay for services with user fees.
- Y __ M __ N __ All foreign aid should be privately funded.
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- ____ My ECONOMIC self-government score: add 20 for Y, 10 for M, 0 for N.
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- How to use the Self-Government Compass
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- Mark your PERSONAL score on the left and your ECONOMIC score on the
- right. Then, follow the grid lines (rows of dots) until they meet at
- your political identity! An example for someone who scored 20 on
- Personal and 30 on Economic is indicated with an asterisk (*).
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- The compass measures self-government. Liberals value freedom of
- expression. Conservatives value free enterprise. Libertarians
- value both. Authoritarians are against both.
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- ./ .Libertarian. \.
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- ./ . . ! . . . ! . . \.
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- ./ . Left . ! . . . ! . Right . \.
- 100 \. Liberal ! Centrist !Conservative/ 100
- \. . . ! . . . ! . . ./
- 80 \. . !___.___.___! . ./ 80
- \. ./ . . . \. ./
- 60 \./ . . * . \./ 60
- (%) \. Authoritarian ./ (%)
- Personal 40 \. . . ./ 40 Economic
- Self-Governor \. . ./ Self-Governor
- 20 \. ./ 20
- \./
- 0 0
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- _________________________________________________________________
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- Political Philosophies
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- * Libertarians are self-governors in both personal and economic
- matters. They believe government's only purpose is to protect
- people from coercion and violence. They value individual
- responsibility, and tolerate economic and social diversity.
- * Left-liberals prefer self-government in personal matters and
- central decision-making on economics. They want government to
- serve the disadvantaged in the name of fairness. Leftists tolerate
- social diversity, but work for economic equality.
- * Centrists favor selective government intervention and emphasize
- practical solutions to current problems. They tend to keep an open
- mind on new issues. Many centrists feel that government serves as
- a check on excessive liberty.
- * Right-conservatives prefer self-government on economic issues, but
- want official standards in personal matters. They want the
- government to defend the community from threats to its moral
- fiber.
- * Authoritarians want government to advance society and individuals
- through expert central planning. They often doubt whether
- self-government is practical. Left-authoritarians are also called
- socialists, while fascists are right-authoritarians.
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- Copyright (c) 1996-1997 Advocates for Self-Government, Inc. OK to
- reprint quiz as-is with credit to the Advocates. The Self-Government
- Compass is adapted from an original idea by David Nolan.
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